HTML Vs. Flash (Discuss)
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- design_slave
What do you prefer to work with?
What do you prefer to view?
Why?
- nLHb0
i like flash because it is more organic.
but i like html as well
- JazX0
ok this question was brought up before about a year and a half and everyone went into why they are two different monsters. You cannot really compare them.
- jevad0
you use the right tool for the right job and thats about all that needs to be said.
- radar0
well said Jevad - I like both but you use which ever tool is best suited for the job. Nothing worse then flash being used when it isn't needed.
- JazX0
your always going to use some form of HTML to Embed your Flash file, so it depends on how you look at it. At least for web-based design right?
- mitsu0
flash is great for presentation. but in terms of data/information-based apps, it can be more of a hinderance.
- kodap0
-flash is owned by macromedia.
-html not.
- JazX0
kodap, lol!
- izaway0
Basically its about old school developers and art directors who want to keep flash in check so they don't have to learn deep new OOP programming skills.
The AMF format with its serialization and deserialization of name/value pairs is much quicker and more seamless than anything html can do. From there, the list of reasons to use flash just goes on and on.
- angryspongebath0
Whatever the client wants and/or pays for.
-grrr
- jevad0
"Whatever the client wants and/or pays for."
that attitude is why there are so many awful flash sites out there on teh web that could have been 100% better doen in html.
It is up to you, as the designer, to educate and inform the client as to the best method of project execution - not the other way around.
- m0rt0
I prefer HTML based sites. Bits of embedded Flash here and there for presentation purposes can be real nice but sites built completely in Flash are a pain to use. Most of them break the browser back button, don't allow for bookmarking individual pages and are inaccessible and not search engine friendly.
I don't buy the usual "not everyone has the plugin" excuse, but the other problems do annoy me and would prevent me from building sites completely in Flash.
- tymeframe0
photoshop or illustrator......which is better?
- jevad0
my ass or Jazx's ass - which is better?
- JazX0
woohoo! mine mine, vote fer me. ;)
- unfittoprint0
Flash? hate, hate that shit.
Hope it dies. Just dies.
- Bahiatronic0
I vote for JazX, heheh!!
- winter0
learn how to draw. the internet will go away one of these days.
- angryspongebath0
Jevad, you raise the obvious point.